Jed Nussbaum

Jed Nussbaum is the founder and managing partner of Nut Tree Capital Management. Nut Tree Capital launched its commingled fund in February 2016. The fund seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns primarily by employing a fundamentals-based long-biased investment strategy focused on assets including distressed and stressed corporate debt, low loan-to-value high yield debt, and special situations and deep value equities. The fund currently manages about $430 million.

Prior to forming Nut Tree Capital, Jed was a long-time partner at Redwood Capital, a $5+ billion long-biased credit fund. At Redwood, Jed was responsible for a wide range of industries and also played a key role in hiring and developing Redwood’s analyst team. From 2013 until his departure in February 2015, Jed was also the Deputy Portfolio Manager of Redwood Opportunity Fund. Prior to joining Redwood in 2003, he worked in the mezzanine debt group at Whitney & Co. (1999-2001) and in the High Yield Finance department at Chase Securities Inc. Jed holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (2003) and a B.A. magna cum laude from Tufts University (1997).